Gerald Holtom

Gerald Herbert Holtom (20 January 1914 – 18 September 1985^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]) was an English artist and designer. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, in 1958 he designed the Nuclear Disarmament (ND) logo, which was adopted the same year by the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and later became an international peace symbol.^[5]^[6]

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